I have outlined tonight's SOTU w/out having actually heard it yet...

[Hissyspit]

Here it is. Look about right?

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, fellow citizens:

I. disingenuousness
     A. prevarication
        1. dissembly
        2. mendacity
            a. Orwellian double-speak
            b. fallacy
     B. misrepresentation
        1. straw man
        2. more fallacy
II. sophistry
     A. perfidiousness
        1. another straw man
        2. manipulation
        3. delusion
     B. broad patriotic metaphor
        1. pandering
        2. fear-mongering
III. Machiavellianism
     A. insincerity
     B. more Orwellian double-speak
IV. propagandizing
     A. sleight-of-hand
     B. misrepresentation
        1. demogoguery
            a. Clinton Administration
V. delusion
     A. insincerity
        1. shallowness
        2. hollowness
            a. disguised threat
VI. double-talk
     A. speciousness
        1. more Orwellian double-speak
     C. insubstantiality
     D. hollowness
VII. disquised threat
     A. pandering
     B. inappropriate linking of state and religion
        1. another broad patriotic metaphor
        2. disingenuousness
     C. lie

Thank you, and may God bless America.

[displacedtexan]

1. I am so stealing this!

Brilliant!

[nickyt]

2. Hissy, other than missing a few hundred "uh"s, it's perfect!

i'm stealin' it, too

[Hissyspit]

4. I wrote it from the perspective of a Bush speechwriter.

They would DELIBERATELY put in disingenuousness and mendacity, but not the "uh's."
Shrub provides them himself.

[Warpy]

3. Shorter version, "Bend Over!"

because that's the gist of it concerning health care. "The holy corporation must be relieved of the awful burden of paying for your health insurance, my poor little people. You must become wiser customers, and make those 40 calls while you are dying of a heart attack to find out who the cheapest doctor, hospital, and laboratory are in your town, because it will be your own money you're spending. Although the insurance companies have been the ones to negotiate all the breaks on cost for hospital stays, surgeries, and drugs, you will now be left on your own with a pathetically small but generously tax reduced savings account to negotiate those breaks for yourself, one of you at a time, from the idiotically inflated prices they gouge the presently uninsured on."

So "Bend over" covers it nicely. Anything else is just padding.

[Hissyspit]

5. How about this:

I. Intro
II. Health Care
A. "Bend Over"
III. Have A Nice Day!

[Cobalt Violet]

9. Bend Over for Bush Care.

[Hissyspit]

6. Oh, I forgot. Print it out so you don't lose track tonight.

You know you don't want to lose track!

[LSK]

7. K & R

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

8. K&R.

:thumbsup:

[bleever]

10. Excellent. And I think we could also count on:

some solipsisms, self-serving tautologies, and passive-aggressive statements of hate against anyone who disagrees.

Oh, and some smirks and that coke-jaw twitch he's got.

[Hissyspit]

13. Solipsism got cut from the first draft.

:7

[bleever]

15. S'okay, I think you got all the bases covered.

Nice job.

:thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

11. Nice job, Hissyspit!

I'm printing this out -- it's a keeper!

[BikeWriter]

12. K&R

[hvn_nbr_2]

14. You forgot English language massacre, tortured word sequences,...

nonsense assemblages of syllables, and mixed sentence fragments.

[Straight Shooter]

16. What? No "heh heh"?

What about cokejaw, a/k/a "hula jaw" effect?

Just kidding. Great job! K & R

[Festivito]

17. I must say: "Thank you," for that. /nt

[Hissyspit]

18. You're welcome. I should have got "support of fascist police state" in

there somewhere, too.